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Posner versus Kelsen: the challenges for scientific analysis of law.
- Source :
- European Journal of Law & Economics; Jun2017, Vol. 43 Issue 3, p495-516, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Law & economics scholars claim, among other things, to provide explanations of how law impacts behaviour. The aim of this article is to shed light on the conceptual and methodological difficulties related to analysis of the impact that law has on behaviour. The analysis advanced in the paper takes as its starting point a commentary on Richard Posner's interpretation of Hans Kelsen's pure theory of law. The work of Kelsen is treated as a meta-theoretical analysis that reveals some of the presumptions of theoretical approaches to law that claim to be scientific and, in particular, that claim to scientifically analyse the law's influence on behaviour. The article concludes with a methodological proposal on how to approach the identified methodological challenges and conceptual tensions that law & economics contends with. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- LAW & economics
POLITICAL science & society
SOCIOLOGY
POLITICAL attitudes
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09291261
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Journal of Law & Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 123058008
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-016-9552-1